Our fellow human beings, driven by nature to the pursuit of personal profit, are the more struck by any collective body in which each individual part avoids the limelight and
works for the advantage of the whole.
 Charles de Gaulle, The Edge of the Sword (1932). copy citation

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Author Charles de Gaulle
Source The Edge of the Sword
Topic collective profit
Date 1932
Language English
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Note Translated by Gerard Hopkins
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